Barron GRE word list - A

[Pages:190]abase abash abate abbreviate abdicate aberrant aberration abet abeyance abhor

abide

abject

abjure ablution abnegation abode abolish abominable abominate aboriginal abortive abrasive abridge abrogate abscission abscond

absolute

absolve abstain

Barron GRE word list - A lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect embarrass subside or moderate shorten renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility) abnormal or deviant deviation from the normal; mental disorder assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage suspended action detest; hate Dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; Ex. abide by the rules; Ex. I can't abide rude people. (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of self-respect; Ex. abject apology renounce upon oath washing renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation dwelling place; home cancel; put an end to detestable; extremely unpleasant loathe; hate being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N. aborigine unsuccessful; fruitless rubbing away; tending to grind down condense or shorten abolish cutting off; separation depart secretly and hide complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism pardon (an offense) refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one's vote;

abstemious abstinence abstract abstruse abusive abut abysmal abyss academic accede accelerate accessible accessory

acclaim

acclimate acclivity accolade accommodate accomplice accord accost accoutre accretion

accrue

acerbity acetic acidulous

sparing in eating and drinking; temperate restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational obscure; profound; difficult to understand coarsely insulting; physically harmful border upon; adjoin bottomless enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit related to a school; not practical or directly useful agree move faster easy to approach; obtainable additional object; useful but not essential thing applaud; praise; greet with great approval; announce with great approval; Ex. The new drung has been acclaimed as the most important discoveries for years; N: strong expression of approval and praise adjust to climate or environment; adapt sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity award of merit; strong praise and approval oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough space for; ADJ. accommodative; CF. accomodating: helpful and obliging partner in crime agreement approach and speak first to a person equip; N. accoutrement growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase by natural growth; Ex. towers and other accretions of the castle; V. accrete come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition; Ex. benefits that accrue from scientific research; Ex. interest accruing in a bank account; N. accrual bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone) vinegary slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp; caustic

acknowledge acme acne acoustics acquiesce acquittal acrid acrimonious acrophobia actuarial actuary actuate acuity acumen

acute adage adamant

adapt

addendum addiction addle address adept adhere adherent adjacent adjoin

recognize; admit peak; pinnacle; highest point skin disease (on the face) science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in assent; agree passively; comply without protest deliverance from a charge; V. acquit: free from a charge or accusation; discharge from a duty; conduct (oneself) in a specified manner bitter (to the taste or smell); sharp; bitterly pungent stinging; caustic; bitter in words or manner; N. acrimony: bitter ill-natured animosity in speech or behavior fear of heights calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics someone who advises insurance companies motivate; activate; cause to act sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; Ex. business acumen (of the senses) sharp; quickly perceptive; keen; penetrating; brief and severe; Ex. acute sense of smell/analysis/pain wise saying; proverb hard; inflexible make or become suitable for a specific use; alter; modify; adjust; N. adaptation: act of adapting; composition recast into a new form; Ex. The play is an adaption of a short novel. addition; appendix to book; something that is added (as at the end of a speech or book) compulsive habitual need make or become confused; muddle; drive crazy; become rotten (egg) direct a speech to; speak to; deal with or discuss; direct one's efforts or attention to; make with a destination; N: formal speech expert at; very skilled stick fast; be a devotd follower; N. adhesion: adhering; devotion; loyality supporter; follower adjoining; neighboring; close by be next to

adjourn adjunct adjuration adjutant admonish adore adorn adroit adulation

adulterate

Advent adventitious adversary adverse adversity advert advocacy advocate aegis aerie(aery,eyrie,eyry)

aesthetic

affable affected affidavit affiliation

affinity

affirmation

affliction

affluence

suspend until a later time; move from one place to another something attached to but holding an inferior position solemn urging; V. adjure: entreat earnestly; enjoin solemnly staff officer assisting the commander; assistant warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove love deeply and respect highly decorate skillful (in using mind or hand) flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances arrival accidental; casual; happening by chance opponent; enemy going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event refer support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for shield; protection; defense nest of a large bird of prey artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly artificial; pretended written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) joining; associating with feeling of kinship; similarity; Ex. strong affinity for her; Ex. many affinities between two languages positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; V. affirm; ADJ. affirmative; CF. affirmative action: positive discrimination state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on abundance; wealth

affront

afterlife agape agenda

agglomeration

aggrandize

aggregate

aghast agility agitate agnostic agog agrarian airy alacrity alchemy alcove alias alienate alimentary alimony allay allege allegiance allegory alleviate alliteration allocate

alloy

insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally life after death; later part of one's life openmouthed items of business at a meeting collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass; heap make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement sum; total; ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; Ex. aggregate 100 dollars filled with great surprise or fear; horrified nimbleness; ability to move quickly stir up; disturb one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality highly excited; intensely curious pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal cheerful promptness without reluctance medieval chemistry nook; recess an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); ADV. alias make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of supplying nourishment payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce calm; pacify state without proof loyalty story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable relieve (pain) repetition of beginning sound in poetry assign; set apart for a particular purpose mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness

allude allure alluvial alms aloft aloof altercation

altruistic

amalgam

amalgamate amass amazon ambidextrous

ambience

ambiguous ambivalence amble ambrosia ambulatory

ambush

ameliorate

amenable

amend amenities amiable amicable amiss amity

refer indirectly; N. allusion: indirect reference entice; attract; tempt pertaining to soil deposits left by running water money or goods given to the poor upward; high up in the air apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV. noisy quarrel unselfishly generous; concerned for others; N. altiruism: unselfish concern for the welfare of others; unselfishness; OP. egoism combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth (of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body collect (gradually, in a very large amount) female warrior capable of using either hand with equal ease environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions walking at an easy unhurried pace; V: walk slowly and aimlessly food of the gods able to walk act of lying in wait to attack by surprise; sudden attack made from a concealed position; Ex. lie in ambush; V. improve obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests correct; change ; generally for the better convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly peaceful; politely friendly; not quarrelsome; Ex. amicable settlement wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV. friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations

amnesia amnesty amok(amuck) amoral amorous amorphous amphibian amphitheater

ample

amplify

amputate amulet

anachronism

analgesia analgesic analogous analogy

anarchist

anarchy anathema ancestry anchor ancillary anecdote anemia

anesthetic

anguish

angular

loss of memory pardon (allowed by government to political criminals) in a state of rage; Ex. run amok nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; Ex. amorous advances formless; lacking shape or definition able to live both on land and in water; N. oval building with tiers of seats; CF. arena enough; abundant; spacious; large in size; Ex. ample opportunity/garden; N. amplitude: quality of being ample; abundance; largeness of space increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph cut off part of body; prune (a limb) charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic condition of being unable to feel pain causing insensitivity to pain; N. comparable; similar similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority absence of governing body; state of disorder solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize family descent; ADJ. ancestral secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; N. anchorage serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N. short story of an amusing or interesting event condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; ADJ. anemic substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness; N. anesthesia acute pain; extreme suffering sharp-cornered; having an angle; not rounded (body); bony; lean; gaunt; stiff in manner

animadversion animated animosity animus annals anneal

annex

annihilate annotate annuity annul anodyne anoint anomalous anomaly anonymity

antagonism

antecede antecedents antediluvian anthem anthology anthropoid anthropologist anthropomorphic

anticlimax

antidote antipathy antiquated antique

critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval lively; spirited active enmity hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility; disposition records arranged in yearly parts; history reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass) attach; add to a large thing; take possession of; incorporate (territory) into a larger existing political unit (by force); N: building added to a large one destroy comment; make explanatory notes yearly allowance make void drug that relieves pain or trouble;opiate; ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement consecrate; put oil on (in a religious ceremony) abnormal; irregular irregularity state of being nameless; anonymousness; ADJ. anonymous hostility; active opposition; V. antagonize: cause to become an enemy; N. antagonist: person who is opposed to another; opponent; adversary; principal character in oppostion to the protagonist precede preceding events that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background antiquated; extremely ancient song of praise or patriotism; Ex. national anthem book of literary selections by various authors; CF. omnibus manlike; resembling a human being; N. student of the history and science of humankind having human form or characteristics letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting remedy to counteract a poison or disease; Ex. antidote to the economic troubles aversion; dislike or opposition obsolete; old-fashioned; outdated made in an earlier period and usu. valuable; N: object that was made in an earlier

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